The Devotional - A Heavenly Inheritance

The Devotional

Comment: Inheritance, how does that word fit in your frame of reference? I know that some folks look for that ship to moor in their harbor. You know some rich aunt, uncle or other person close to them ready to reward them for events in life that they personally feel is deserving of reward later in life. Honestly this sort of waiting around is a waste of time and more like a childhood dream or fairytale. There is so much overwhelming evidence that this sort of reward ends up (if one were to receive it) destroying life, crushing relationships and isolating life to nothing more than a rich old recluse. GOD HAS A BETTER PLAN FOR YOU! His Plan is perfect and it is immediate, also it is a Plan that never fades away. Notice if you will James 1:9-11 and 1 Peter 1:4.

Devotional: Our desire in life is to have everything in abundance, fortune, fame and food. We seek to upsize everything including our waistline. Have you not noticed the gluttonous lifestyles of many? People search, seek and end up destroying their lives for avenues that are nothing more than dead end streets. At the end of these foolish and vain avenues of life is nothing more that death. In dying they can only add these words… they did it their way, end of story.

Notice what the LORD God has to offer. He also offers abundance, a life of ‘abundance’, John 10:10. He offers an abundance of MERCY too. Now the apostle Peter is talking to God’s children in his first epistle and he is speaking as to remind us of what we already have in our relationship to the LORD, notice 1 Peter 1:3-11. All of God’s creation seeks mercy in abundance, look quickly at Romans 8:18-30.

Blessed be the God and Father of our LORD Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a “living hope” (a blessed future) through (by means of) the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. What a wonderful hope we have in Christ, there is no dead end. Jesus is alive and He is the fulfilled promise of God to all who will receive His abundant mercy, this is an inheritance that does not fade away. Because Jesus lives and He is keeping that inheritance for you and me personally. 

One day soon He will reveal this inheritance, not as a reward for our works, but as a fulfilled promise of God to all who call upon God, who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation, a salvation in Jesus Christ who is ready, even at this moment to be revealed in the last time (the Day of the LORD) 2 Peter3:10-13. It is therefore foolish to take the way of life offered by the world since the world is full of death and decay. Job 23:10-11 says this: “But He (God) knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I shall come forth as gold. My foot has held fast to His steps; I have kept His WAY and not turned aside.”

I treasure the Word of God as one who has great wealth, I hope and pray that you do too.